Hello, Stu here. This is something a bit new. I was chatting recently to producer Callum about how tricky it is in the current podcast ecosystem to revisit certain episodes from the archive. How do you know? How does you, the listener, know, for example, that eight years ago I interviewed comedian X, you know, or that someone has a

particularly interesting thing to say about how to survive the Edinburgh fringe. That comes up from

time to time. So, thanks to your brilliant survey feedback, we're going to start re-releasing some of

the most requested episodes. So, uh, join me now as we're hopping back to a time

before the world went askew all the way to January 2020. And you can hear, I imagine, in our voices,

and in our hearts, and you can imagine our wet little eyes as myself. And John Kearns of episode

323, John and I just didn't know what was about to befall us.

There's probably a fun game you could play whereby you could find the single most recent,

the single podcast released nearest to the start of the pandemic that had no idea.

There's somewhere out there will be a graph of the schism between

how upbeat the presenters are and how nearly it was all about to happen. I don't know if that's

a fun game, but nonetheless, we are revisiting John Kearns, Isaac, who very kindly

answer the survey, hello Isaac, hello to, and it's hello to Isaac. This is a half a joke at best.

But nonetheless, Isaac says, and I think this is really insightful, I really appreciate this.

Jordan Brooks and John Kearns are two episodes linked in my mind as they both showed strong

insight and understanding of what was special about them and what they should be doing. They also,

he says, they also both draw influences from disparate places into their acts. I love hearing

how non-comedy art impacts comedians. Very good second point. That first point, you're absolutely

right. They both have, Kearns and Brooks, both have Brooks, I don't know what's he was Brooks,

Kearns, everyone calls him Kearns, or the Colonel, and Jordan Brooks both totally get what's special about them,

and they totally get what they should be doing. I think that's great. Thank you, Isaac.

So now, with influences from Jacques Tattee to Neil Hamburger, we're going to explore John Kearns' sense of place within himself. We'll talk about overreaching

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